It works both ways. If everyone has a basic income, now an employers no longer need to pay anything resembling a living wage. The entire workforce because the equivalent of teenagers who are just working for some extra spending money. As long as the job itself isn't too unbearable, lots of people would be willing to work at low wage for a few hours a week just to have some extra luxuries. A job that has a pleasant work environment could be far more competitive than a job that pays a higher salary.
In 15 years, nobody is going to be driving anywhere. The supply chain from farm to table is going to be automated warehouses and self-driving delivery trucks.
Robots. Every time raising the minimum wage comes up, people are quick to claim such a raise in labor costs will just accelerate adoption of automation. But if we had basic income in lieu of a minimum wage, then such automation would be unequivocally positive.
What a bunch of false equlivance, white guy pity party.
There is a world of difference between "conscription practices, naval military recruiting practices, and industrial labor practices" (all of which also inflicted on the descendants of slaves) and actual laws on the books based explicitly on race and ancestry.
Were the descendants of serf banned from voting? Were the descendants of serfs banned from buying property? Did the descendants of serfs have to use separate drinking fountains? Were the descendants of serfs lynched by hooded mobs? These were substantial discriminations still taking place one hundred years after slavery.
America is "obsessed" with slavery because the descendant of slaves were legally treated as second class citizen up until a generation ago and still continue to suffer economic and social repercussions to this day.
If you're making major life decisions (like having a kids) based on cartoonishly exaggerated comedies, then you are exactly the type of person who shouldn't be having kids. Idiocracy is a good, funny movie. But it is not a accurate representation of either genetics or intelligence.
Parody is not an automatic defense. A parody needs to be sufficiently different from the original so it would not be confused with the original. So the question is: could someone look at that t-shirt and mistake it for t-shirt authorized by the trademark holder?
Here is a pretty good discussion:
https://everythingtrademarks.c...
You can call Trump literally Hitler. That's free speech.
You can print an article calling Trump literally Hitler. That's free press.
But if you make and sell a T-shirt with Trump's image and a Hitler mustache, now you're profiting from the unauthorized use of a trademarked image. That's no more protected than selling unauthorized t-shirts with the image of a band or sports team.
Try selling an unauthorized T-shirt with Taylor Swift or Kobe Bryant's name and image. Politicians might be more reluctant to enforce their trademarks than other celebrities, but they still have same right to do so.
40 million Americans have outstanding student loans. About 5% of working age Americans collect federal disability benefits. Assuming those two are independent variables, the expectation value is 2 million disabled American with student loans. So 400,000 is actually below expectation.
Do you have a dollar? Does it have "Property of roman_mir" printed at the top? Nope, it says "Federal Reserve Note". So rend unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.
This is not the Soviet Union. You are not forced to stay in the US. If you find the social contract unacceptable as presented, you are free to depart to greener pastures. The fact that you continue to accept the benefits and privileges of living in the US constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions.
By far the largest diagnostic group of people getting federal disability insurance benefits, 35.2%, have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Within that group, the most common is mood disorders which account for 14% of all disability beneficiaries.
It varies from state to state, but most jurisdictions will not evict you from your primary residence for failure to pay properties taxes. Evictions are expensive; its much easier put a lien on it and collect at the time of sale.
There are no feasible scenarios where Earth would become less suitable for life than Mars. That includes scenarios like asteroid impact or nuclear war. Despite all the mass extinction events in Earth's history, some life has always survived. The same cannot be said for Mars.
You're just using cynicism as an excuse for laziness. The topic here is cities, so state and local votes certainly make a difference. Especially in states where ballot initiatives and voter referendums are an active part of the political process.
Diamond takes a more a long term view. In the context of his theory, the last 300 years of Chinese history is a temporary setback due to political errors than a permanent outcome.
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Just use an app on your own phone.
Try living in Finland are refusing to pay taxes. The guns will show up pretty quickly.
Since 2005. The first completion of the DARPA Grand Challenge is when autonomous cars started to be taken seriously.
It works both ways. If everyone has a basic income, now an employers no longer need to pay anything resembling a living wage. The entire workforce because the equivalent of teenagers who are just working for some extra spending money. As long as the job itself isn't too unbearable, lots of people would be willing to work at low wage for a few hours a week just to have some extra luxuries. A job that has a pleasant work environment could be far more competitive than a job that pays a higher salary.
In 15 years, nobody is going to be driving anywhere. The supply chain from farm to table is going to be automated warehouses and self-driving delivery trucks.
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_tabl...
Robots. Every time raising the minimum wage comes up, people are quick to claim such a raise in labor costs will just accelerate adoption of automation. But if we had basic income in lieu of a minimum wage, then such automation would be unequivocally positive.
There is a world of difference between "conscription practices, naval military recruiting practices, and industrial labor practices" (all of which also inflicted on the descendants of slaves) and actual laws on the books based explicitly on race and ancestry.
Were the descendants of serf banned from voting? Were the descendants of serfs banned from buying property? Did the descendants of serfs have to use separate drinking fountains? Were the descendants of serfs lynched by hooded mobs? These were substantial discriminations still taking place one hundred years after slavery.
America is "obsessed" with slavery because the descendant of slaves were legally treated as second class citizen up until a generation ago and still continue to suffer economic and social repercussions to this day.
Compare top countries by house size:
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com...
To top countries by CO2 emissions per capita:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you're making major life decisions (like having a kids) based on cartoonishly exaggerated comedies, then you are exactly the type of person who shouldn't be having kids. Idiocracy is a good, funny movie. But it is not a accurate representation of either genetics or intelligence.
Parody is not an automatic defense. A parody needs to be sufficiently different from the original so it would not be confused with the original. So the question is: could someone look at that t-shirt and mistake it for t-shirt authorized by the trademark holder? Here is a pretty good discussion: https://everythingtrademarks.c...
So if those students had been armed and the guardsmen had orders to shoot, that would have made them LESS likely to fire? Now you're just being silly.
You mean like the Kent State shooting where the military actually did fire on their "brothers and sisters"?
You can print an article calling Trump literally Hitler. That's free press.
But if you make and sell a T-shirt with Trump's image and a Hitler mustache, now you're profiting from the unauthorized use of a trademarked image. That's no more protected than selling unauthorized t-shirts with the image of a band or sports team.
Try selling an unauthorized T-shirt with Taylor Swift or Kobe Bryant's name and image. Politicians might be more reluctant to enforce their trademarks than other celebrities, but they still have same right to do so.
40 million Americans have outstanding student loans. About 5% of working age Americans collect federal disability benefits. Assuming those two are independent variables, the expectation value is 2 million disabled American with student loans. So 400,000 is actually below expectation.
This is not the Soviet Union. You are not forced to stay in the US. If you find the social contract unacceptable as presented, you are free to depart to greener pastures. The fact that you continue to accept the benefits and privileges of living in the US constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...
It varies from state to state, but most jurisdictions will not evict you from your primary residence for failure to pay properties taxes. Evictions are expensive; its much easier put a lien on it and collect at the time of sale.
There are no feasible scenarios where Earth would become less suitable for life than Mars. That includes scenarios like asteroid impact or nuclear war. Despite all the mass extinction events in Earth's history, some life has always survived. The same cannot be said for Mars.
You're just using cynicism as an excuse for laziness. The topic here is cities, so state and local votes certainly make a difference. Especially in states where ballot initiatives and voter referendums are an active part of the political process.
What's wrong with having a service that's run on people making extra cash? Does everything need to be a full-time job?
Diamond takes a more a long term view. In the context of his theory, the last 300 years of Chinese history is a temporary setback due to political errors than a permanent outcome.
500 years gives ample time to develop technology to enhance the brain's memory capacity.